💔 "He came home to find a crime scene. His mother's body lay battered in the basement, and the person responsible had been living under the same roof."
In West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, a son discovered his 80-year-old mother, Delores Burdick, had been beaten, stomped, and thrown down the basement stairs to die. Her own son, Kenneth Burdick, called police the next day and confessed: "I did it. I wasn't thinking that good." The attack began when he walked into her bedroom and started hitting her. He knocked her to the ground, kicked and stomped her, then dragged her to the basement and tossed her down. She was still breathing when he left her there. He waited a full day before calling for help. The son who found her didn't just discover a body—he uncovered a son's brutal betrayal. He was sentenced to 15 to 35 years in prison [citation:1][citation:4].